When you die, God and the Angels will hold you accountable for all the pleasures you were allowed in life that you denied yourself.

We have to be on time every day for one thing or another, so how can we be on time and yet not in time at the same time?

Each of us is already special in the sense that nobody has the unique pattern of potentialities that anyone else has.

People around us change and circumstances change. We can often find ourselves struggling against those things.

The heart, like the grape, is prone to delivering its harvest in the same moment it appears to be crushed.

I bring my attention to my hands on the steering wheel and notice how the chatter in my mind begins to fall away as my breathing slows. I'm awake and alive, simply driving the car going where I need to go, on time and in time. A still point of the turning world. With that awareness, I bring my attention into my body, and the body is the doorway to the timeless, because the body is always where we are and always in the present moment.

This question of love begins and ends with the willingness to be welcoming to one's own experience as a loving action towards oneself. It may be dark, it may be light, it may be joyous, it may be sorrowful, but it's your experience, and therefore, your life. As we have that kind of loving response towards our own life, then life itself in terms of the outside world, begins to feel different.